unwarranted

English

Etymology

un- +‎ warranted

Adjective

unwarranted (comparative more unwarranted, superlative most unwarranted)

1. Not warranted; being without warrant, authority, or guaranty; unwarrantable.
2. Unjustified, inappropriate or undeserved.
   • 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes‎^[1], page 312:

     The dictionaries themselves cover this additional lexis in what can best be described as a piecemeal fashion, with an obvious but unwarranted bias towards colonial era lexis.

Related terms

• unwarrantability
• unwarrantable
• unwarrantableness
• unwarrantably
• unwarrantedly

Translations

being without warrant, authority or guaranty

• German: unberechtigt, unbefugt (de)
• Icelandic: ástæðulaus (is) m, óréttmætur m, óréttmætur m, óréttlætanlegur m, óafsakanlegur m
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• Swedish: otillbörlig (sv), orättmätig (sv), oskälig (sv)

unjustified

• Italian: ingiustificato (it) m, immotivato (it) m
• German: ungerechtfertigt, unbegründet (de)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utilbørlig (no), upassende (no)

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See also

• warrantless

References

• “unwarranted”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “unwarranted”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.